In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...

A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...

4.5 billion years ago the Sun was formed in a swirling cloud of dust and gas called the Solar Nebula. In a paper published by Nature Astronomy journal on April 28th, a team of internationally ...

But astronomers now say that that science is telling them the asteroid will most likely miss Earth. But our planet is not ...

Journal for the History of Astronomy was founded in 1970 and is the only journal devoted to the history of astronomy from earliest times to the present, ...

In a paper published to Nature Astronomy journal, astrophysicists found rocky planet YZ Ceti was deflecting repeated radio signals from the star it orbits around.

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Much of what we know about the Universe comes from the different types of light we can detect, but some astronomers are trying to listen as well as look (Credit: Getty Images) Astronomy is often ...

But a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Astronomy suggests that Venus in its youth may have possessed a key Earth-like trait: plate tectonics, the continual reshaping of pieces of the ...